My Reviews

This area is my own personal views on some of Ross's work. Here i have done a review on the 2 Goes Global series and his second Bootleg cd (If anyone dos have the first cd and maybe has a spare, please email me on the address at the front of this site, Thank you.

Ross Noble Goes Global series 1:

"Ross takes on a journey to different places he travels to when he's on tour. In this series they go to Shanghai, South Africa, Ireland and Singapore. Not only do we hear snippets of him at different gigs, but we also here the places he visits in order to give him inspiration for the gig for that night or of that week. Firstly we hear him in Shanghai, watching children marching and doing exercise before they go to into school for the day, and we have an experience of rush hour and elderley people in Phuking (not sure if this is the correct spelling) Park where they are doing physical exercises. He jokes about this saying that you would have to be careful saying this places name in a Yorkshire Accent. He also talks to a tramp as well about different accents and that. Ross is trying to get away but he's also intrigued by him as well. He only had one tooth which amused him. His travels further through Shanghai also takes him to see Ballroom dancing and community singing. He says in one act that he thinks that kung fu fighting and ballroom dancing should be combined.
    His next journey takes him to South Africa., We hear a young kids singing opera songs. They sound like men but they are just young lads. He performs in a posh town, the centre of a city and on a town ship.He even goes and explores Table Mountain. Best bit is when he goes to the sea town and wants to have a whale bride. He goes down to the beach to see them. We all know how obsessed he gets with things, but this time he becomes obsessed with whales and whale cries. After this gig and whale watching, he goes to Cape Town to watch Street Theatre singing infront of people to welcome them to Cape Town. He would love to see this happen at the airport. He is told that Cape Town has the largest number of Penguins in the world, but he believes thats wrong because he's never seen penguins in the jungle. OH AND YES HE FOUND MONKEY LAND!!!! But he wasn't allowed to go to it which made him sad. Last gig he does he is very wary because they never usually do Comedy there and its mainly a black town and a gangster town and are likely to rob and possibly murder white people who go there.
    Further on in April, he comes back to Ireland. He takes up playing the penny whistle as the penny whislte is a traditional musical instrument from this country. He speaks to a couple of Irish people who give him directions to his hotel. He stays in Sligo, which he does mention is where Westlife are from. He goes to a shop which provides for almost everyone and then mentions he would love to forget himself and make kids walk out wearing tweed and for them to pretend they look wicked. He also spots postcards that have donkey's have them when you wouldn't really find them. Lastly he goes to Dublin. You got city scenes postcards and no donkey's. During the Dublin gig he played some of the penny whistle and tries to rap to eminem to it, showing that the penny whilste isn't all that good musically.
    As a final part of this first series he visits Singapore. He finds the humidity too much in this place and feels it should be called "Sticky pore". He spots a man wearing a coat and flip shoes and describes him as every character that Rik Morans has ever been. He even played a game called "Spot the British person". They are easy to spot as they look all wobbly and wear clothes that do not fit the weather. He made this a whistle stop as he doesn't like the temperature. He see the MerLion statue which he describes it as beoing shit and designed by a pissed bloke..... and this is athe symbol of Singapore.
    I really like this, i highly recommend you go and get it as its quite funny and you get to hear bits of gigs that you proberley won't hear ever.